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Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov. Born September 21, 1936 in Moscow. Soviet and Russian statesman and politician, mayor of Moscow in 1992-2010.
Father - Mikhail Andreevich Luzhkov, a carpenter, originally from the village of Molodoy Tud (now Oleninsky district, Tver region), moved to Moscow in 1928. Member of the Great Patriotic War, was seriously wounded on March 16, 1942, was taken prisoner. Re-conscripted to the Red Army in 1944 by the Ananyevsky RVC of Odessa. In 1945 he fought in the 960th Infantry Regiment of the 299th Infantry Division of the 3rd Ukrainian Front. He was awarded two medals "For Military Merit".
Mother - Anna Petrovna Luzhkova (nee - Syropyatova; 1912-1994), originally from the village of Kalegino, Birsky district, Ufa province (now a village in the Kaltasinsky district of Bashkortostan), worked at a factory as a laborer.
The younger brother is Sergei Mikhailovich Luzhkov (born 1938).
Yury Luzhkov spent his childhood and youth with his grandmother - in Konotop, Sumy region of Ukraine. There he graduated from high school.
Then he returned to Moscow. In grades 8-10, he studied at school No. 529 (now - school No. 1259), graduated in 1953.
In 1954, he worked in the first student detachment, which was developing virgin lands in Kazakhstan.
Graduated from the Institute of petrochemical and gas industry. Gubkin. While studying at the institute, he actively conducted Komsomol work, organized social events.
In 1958-1963 he worked at the Scientific Research Institute (NII) of Plastics as a junior researcher, group leader, deputy head of the laboratory for automation of technological processes.
In 1964-1971, he was the head of the department for automation of the management of the State Committee for Chemistry.
In 1971-1974 - head of department automated systems Management (ACS) of the Ministry of Chemical Industry of the USSR.
In 1974, Luzhkov was appointed director of the Experimental Design Bureau of Automation (OKBA). Since 1980, he has been the director of the Khimavtomatika Research and Production Association, which also included the Moscow OKBA, which he previously headed.
Since 1986 - Head of the Department for Science and Technology of the Ministry of Chemical Industry of the USSR.
Member of the CPSU since 1968 (and until its ban in August 1991).
In 1975 he was elected to the Babushkinsky District Council of Moscow, from 1977 to 1990 - to the Moscow City Council of People's Deputies (Mossovet).
In 1987-1990 he was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR.
In 1987, at the initiative of the first secretary of the CPSU MGK, who selected fresh personnel for himself, he was appointed first deputy chairman of the executive committee of the Moscow City Council of People's Deputies (Moscow City Executive Committee). At the same time, Luzhkov became chairman of the Moscow City Agro-Industrial Committee and headed the city commission for cooperative and individual labor activity.
In April 1990, before the first session of the newly elected democratic Moscow Council, he became acting chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee as a result of the resignation of the last communist chairman of the executive committee, Valery Saykin. The new chairman of the Moscow City Council, Gavriil Popov, on the recommendation of Yeltsin, nominated Luzhkov to the post of chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee.
On June 12, 1991, in the first election of the mayor of Moscow, Luzhkov was elected vice-mayor of Moscow, Gavriil Popov was elected mayor of Moscow.
June 24, 1991 became the prime minister of the government of Moscow, created instead of the Moscow City Executive Committee. At the same time, for some time he continued to exercise the powers of the chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee.
During the events of August 1991, Luzhkov took an active part in the defense of the White House.
On August 24, 1991, without leaving the post of prime minister of the government of Moscow, he was appointed one of the deputy heads of the Committee for the Operational Management of the National Economy of the USSR, created instead of the Union Cabinet of Ministers. He was responsible for issues related to the agro-industrial complex, trade, foreign economic relations and the social sphere. Two months later, Luzhkov left the committee.
On June 6, 1992, Moscow Mayor Gavriil Popov resigned due to interruptions in the supply of food to the population, some of which had to be distributed by coupons. By decree of the President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, Luzhkov was appointed mayor of Moscow and combined the posts of mayor and prime minister of the Moscow government. The Moscow City Council unsuccessfully tried to challenge the legality of such a combination of posts.
Luzhkov was elected three times as mayor of Moscow: in 1996 he won 87.5%, in 1999 - 69.89%, in 2003 - 74.81% of the vote. V.P. was elected vice-mayor together with Luzhkov for the first two times. Shantsev, then the post ceased to be elective.
In September-October 1993, during the constitutional crisis, he sided with Yeltsin. As a measure of pressure on the deputies who did not want to leave the Supreme Council, he ordered to turn off the light in parliament and hot water, and telephones throughout the surrounding area. September 24, 1993 and. about. President of Russia Alexander Rutskoi issued a decree that had no practical consequences on the release of Yu. M. Luzhkov from the post of mayor of Moscow. In fact, Luzhkov continued to fulfill his duties until the 1996 mayoral election, in which he won.
In December 1994, Luzhkov established the first commercial television company in Russia, Teleexpo.
Luzhkov has repeatedly expressed support for the policies of Yeltsin and the government in Chechnya.
In 1995, he took part in the creation of the Our Home is Russia movement and supported it in the Duma elections at the end of that year. However, he did not join the NDR.
In 1996 he took an active part in presidential campaign supporting Boris Yeltsin.
In December 1996, at the initiative of Luzhkov, the Federation Council recognized Sevastopol as part of the territory of Russia and qualified the actions of the Ukrainian leadership to reject it as contrary to international law.
In the elections in 1999, together with the head of the electoral bloc "Fatherland - All Russia", which criticized the policies of President Yeltsin and advocated his early resignation.
Member of the Federation Council, was a member of its committee on the budget, tax policy, currency regulation, banking (1996-2001). He held the position of a member of the Federation Council in accordance with the procedure in force at that time as the head of a subject of the federation, a representative Russian Federation in the Chamber of Regions of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe.
Since November 1998, Luzhkov has been the leader of the All-Russian Political public organization"Fatherland". In 2001, at the founding congress " United Russia”was elected co-chairman of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party.
Since 2000, he has been a member of the State Council of the Russian Federation.
In August 2001, the post of prime minister of the Moscow government was abolished. lead metropolitan government became the mayor of Moscow (until that moment there were two positions: the mayor and the prime minister of the government, and both were held by Yuri Luzhkov).
In 2002, he came up with the idea to return the Dzerzhinsky monument to Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow, but this initiative did not receive support from the authorities.
In June 2007, on the proposal of the President of the Russian Federation, deputies of the Moscow City Duma, Yuri Luzhkov, was again vested with the powers of the mayor of Moscow for a four-year term.
Moscow under Luzhkov has grown significantly as an important economic center. Thus, the total commercial area of the city increased from 2.3 million m² in 1997 to 3.06 million m² by 01/01/2001. The number of hotel-type organizations increased by almost a quarter. The index of industrial production, as a percentage of the previous year, is 77% in 1992, 99% in 1997, 102% in 1998, and 114% in 1999. The construction market has risen quite strongly.
During this period, the appearance of Moscow underwent significant changes: many new buildings were built, highways and transport links.
In the 1990s, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the Kazan Cathedral and the Iberian Gates were completely restored.
In 1995, the Moscow government, with the active participation of Luzhkov, decided to create an architectural reserve "Rogozhskaya Sloboda" and transfer the buildings and structures of the ensemble to the gratuitous and indefinite use of the RSPTs. The decision was timed to coincide with the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the printing of the altars of the churches of the Rogozhsky cemetery.
To the 50th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War a memorial complex and Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill were laid. The Bolshoi Theater was opened after restoration. A considerable number of office and residential buildings, cultural and entertainment centers have been built. New sculptures and monuments are also being created, and in 2010, in honor of the 65th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, two new Eternal Flames were lit on Poklonnaya Gora and the Preobrazhensky Cemetery.
During Luzhkov's work, Gostiny Dvor was reconstructed or restored (with the addition of an ultra-modern Luzhkov-style glass roof), part of the Kitai-Gorod Wall, the Petrovsky Travel Palace, and several large parks in the capital, such as Kuskovo and Kuzminki.
In 2008, the Church of Pope Clement was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church, and at the initiative of Luzhkov, a large-scale restoration was launched there to recreate the historical appearance.
In February 2010, they ordered the reconstruction of Khitrovskaya Square and the surrounding historical buildings.
Under Luzhkov, the construction of skyscrapers, such as the buildings of the Moscow City complex, began for the first time.
Yuri Luzhkov has been repeatedly criticized for the alleged preferences he gives as mayor of Moscow to the structures of his wife Yelena Baturina. Thus, attention was drawn to the fact that in the summer of 2009, at a time when other development companies faced significant difficulties associated with the economic crisis, Baturina's Inteko company repaid bank loans in the amount of 27 billion rubles ahead of schedule. One of the sources of debt repayment was the sale land plot an area of 58 hectares in the south-west of Moscow for 13 billion rubles, that is, 220 million rubles. per 1 ha (this price, according to Vedomosti, corresponded to the pre-crisis price and was about twice as high as the current price at that time). The buyer of the land was a structure close to the Bank of Moscow, and, according to the newspaper, the purchase was paid for by a loan from this bank. At the same time, the Government of Moscow is the largest shareholder of the Bank of Moscow. With all this, Inteko remained the developer of the already sold land and the beneficiary in the implementation of projects on this site. The Kommersant newspaper, the day after Luzhkov's resignation, stated that in relation to these facts Investigative Committee and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation is conducting a pre-investigation check.
In September 2010, several documentaries with criticism of Luzhkov's activities as mayor of Moscow: “The case is in the cap” on NTV, then - “Lawlessness. The Moscow we lost” on Russia-24. On September 27, 2010, Yuri Luzhkov handed over a letter addressed to the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev to the head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, Sergei Naryshkin, in which he expressed indignation at the inaction of the president regarding the appearance of negative programs about himself on television.
On September 28, 2010, the President of Russia signed a decree "On the early termination of the powers of the mayor of Moscow", according to which Luzhkov was dismissed from the post of mayor of Moscow "due to the loss of confidence of the President of the Russian Federation". Medvedev used this wording for the first time, before him such a procedure was used by Vladimir Putin during his second presidency several times to dismiss the heads of regions (the governor of the Koryak Autonomous Okrug Vladimir Loginov in March 2005, the arrested head of the administration of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug Alexei Barinov in July 2006 and untried Governor of the Amur Region Leonid Korotkov in May 2007).
Later Yuri Luzhkov on the reasons for his dismissal from the post of mayor of Moscow said that he was dismissed due to the fact that he refused to support the intention of Dmitry Medvedev to run for a second presidential term. In his autobiographical book Moscow and Life, Luzhkov noted that in April 2010 businessman Boris Khait came to him and asked him to support Medvedev in the 2012 elections. Hayit also warned that the withdrawal of support for the incumbent would lead to the end political career Luzhkov, as well as that "sanctions will follow." Luzhkov writes that he "resolutely refused" the offer and asked Khait to convey that the meeting had not gone well. About ten days later, the entrepreneur again asked for a meeting. After another refusal by the current mayor of Moscow, he was followed by “accusations of smoking Moscow with burning peat bogs in the Moscow region”, “provocative films” about his family were made, accusations were made on television broadcasts and in the print press. Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov considered all this a manifestation of revenge. Some time later, the Mayor of Moscow met with Sergei Naryshkin (Head of the Administration of the President of Russia), who suggested that the Mayor write a letter of resignation of his own free will. Luzhkov writes that he said: "Look how the press is developing around your figure, you need to write a letter of resignation of your own free will." Yuri Mikhailovich replied that he sees no reason to write such a statement and will not do it, and also considers it a staging and the result of political pressure. Then Naryshkin said that this would be followed by the dismissal of the mayor. According to Luzhkov, they agreed with Naryshkin to take a break for a week and meet later, so that Luzhkov "had an opportunity to think." The mayor wrote a statement, but not about dismissal. “I wrote a statement that I do not consider Medvedev a normal president and that all his measures towards me do not smell of democracy, but smell of persecution for his convictions and disagreement to support his candidacy. And he said not to regard the statement as a request for resignation,” Luzhkov said. As a result, on September 28, 2010, President Medvedev signed a decree on the termination of the powers of Yuri Luzhkov.
After his resignation as mayor on October 1, 2010, Luzhkov was appointed dean of the Faculty of Large Cities Management at the International University in Moscow. The appointment order was signed by the president of the university, the former mayor (and Luzhkov's predecessor as mayor) of Moscow, Gavriil Popov. The Faculty of Management of Large Cities was established in 2002 on the initiative of Yu. M. Luzhkov, in the same year Luzhkov became the scientific director of this faculty and an honorary professor of the university.
On January 17, 2011, the Latvian authorities confirmed that at the end of 2010 Luzhkov applied for a residence permit in Latvia, justifying it with investments in the capital of one of the Latvian banks in the amount of about 200 thousand US dollars. After this confirmation, a message followed that, based on information from security agencies, Luzhkov was included in the list of undesirable persons for Latvia. On January 18, Interior Minister Linda Murniece announced that she had included Luzhkov on the list on the basis that he "does not like this country and has a hostile attitude towards Latvia."
A year after his resignation, Luzhkov said that the Russian authorities were persecuting his family and that "today it is impossible to do business in our country." According to Luzhkov, his family's residence in London is connected with this. After all the allegations of corruption, the authorities did not come to a single conclusion, thus, the prosecution did not find strong arguments and evidence.
On December 6, 2011, Luzhkov stated that in the 2011 State Duma elections he did not vote for the United Russia party, of which he was one of the founders. For whom he exactly voted, the former mayor kept silent.
Since 2012, he has been a member of the board of directors of OAO United Oil Company (the executive body of Ufaorgsintez), which is controlled by the AFK Sistema group and the structures of Yakov Goldovsky.
In 2013, he bought out 87% of the shares of the Weedern stud farm, on the basis of which he began to conduct agricultural production in the Kaliningrad region. Since 2015, the company has been producing buckwheat, the plans were to grow mushrooms. In the elections in State Duma in the fall of 2016, he was a confidant of the candidate for deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, admiral and ex-commander of the Black Sea Fleet Vladimir Komoyedov.
On September 21, 2016, on the day of Luzhkov’s 80th birthday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree awarding Yuri Mikhailovich the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree, “for active social activities". The ex-mayor himself, who personally received the award the next day, regarded it as "a symbol of the return from timelessness" and "the end of disgrace."
Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov owns the rights to use many inventions. He has more than a hundred patents to his credit, including such as a method for the production of hydrogen and thermal energy and a rotary engine. internal combustion, two variants of the Sparrow Hills sports and recreation complex and a method for photoinactivation of the bird flu virus. In the Rospatent database, Luzhkov is listed as a co-author in 123 patents, 49 applications for inventions and 10 industrial designs.
Yuri Luzhkov is a doctor of chemical sciences, honorary professor of Moscow State University, the Academy of Labor and Social Relations, a number of domestic and foreign universities, an academician of a number of Russian academies.
The growth of Yuri Luzhkov: 174 centimeters.
Personal life Yuri Luzhkov:
Was married three times.
First wife - Alevtina Luzhkova. Were married students, but quickly divorced.
The second wife is Marina Mikhailovna Bashilova (1934-1988). They met at the Institute of Oil and Gas and Chemical Industry. They got married in 1958. The wife died of liver cancer.
Two sons were born in the marriage - Mikhail and Alexander.
Third wife - (born March 8, 1963), Russian entrepreneur, philanthropist, philanthropist. We met when Luzhkov was the chairman of the Moscow City Agro-Industrial Committee and headed the city commission for cooperative and individual labor activity, and Baturina was the secretary of this commission. We got married in 1991.
Two daughters were born in the marriage - Elena (born 1992) and Olga (born 1994). Before the resignation of Yuri Luzhkov, the daughters studied at Moscow State University. Later they moved to London, where they studied politics and economics at University College London.
Olga entered the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University in 2010, then studied for two years at University College London. Then she graduated with a bachelor's degree from New York University, by 2016 she was studying for a master's degree in hospitality and food sciences. At the end of 2015, Olga opened the Herbarium Bar next to the Grand Tirolia Hotel in Kitzbühel, owned by Elena Baturina. Olga is also interested in interior design.
Eldest daughter Elena works in one of the structures associated with the hotel business.
In January 2016, Luzhkov and Baturina got married.
Yuri Luzhkov with his daughter Olga
Luzhkov's famous headdress is a cap.
His hobbies are beekeeping, tennis, horse riding. A few years ago, a statue of the mayor-tennis player was installed in one of the Moscow parks. Honey from his apiary, which, after his retirement, was moved to Medyn, Kaluga region, where his brother lives, Luzhkov likes to give gifts to friends on special occasions.
Awards and titles of Yuri Luzhkov:
Medal "Defender of Free Russia" (November 9, 1993) - for the performance of civic duty in the defense of democracy and the constitutional order on August 19-21, 1991;
- award weapon - 7.62-mm semi-automatic carbine "Saiga" (June 6, 1995) - from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation No. 50th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War”;
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (November 14, 1995) - for services to the state, a great personal contribution to the implementation of reforms aimed at restructuring the city's economy, successful work on the reconstruction of the historical center of the capital, the revival of churches, the construction of the Victory Memorial Complex on Poklonnaya Hill;
- Medal "In memory of the 850th anniversary of Moscow";
- Order of Honor (August 19, 2000) - for a great contribution to the preservation and restoration of cultural and architectural monuments of the city of Moscow;
- Medal "In memory of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg";
- Order "For Military Merit" (October 1, 2003) - for a great personal contribution to improving the combat readiness of troops and ensuring the defense capability of the Russian Federation;
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 1st class (September 21, 2006) - for outstanding contribution to the strengthening of Russian statehood and the socio-economic development of the city;
- Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" III degree;
- Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree (September 21, 2016) - for active social activities;
- Order "Duslyk" (Tatarstan, 2016);
- Medal "For the development of virgin lands" (1954);
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1976);
- Order of Lenin (1981);
- Medal "For Strengthening the Combat Commonwealth";
- Order of the Republic of Tyva (2001) - for many years of fruitful cooperation and great personal contribution to the socio-economic development of the republic;
- Medal "For Merit to the Chechen Republic" (2005);
- Order named after Akhmat Kadyrov (2006, Chechen Republic);
- Medal "60 years of the formation of the Kaliningrad region" (2006);
- Order "For Merit to the Kaliningrad Region" (Kaliningrad Region, January 16, 2009) - for special services to the Kaliningrad Region, related to making a great contribution to the socio-economic development of the Kaliningrad Region and a significant contribution to the protection of citizens' rights;
- Order of Saint Mesrop Mashtots (Armenia);
- Medal of Francysk Skaryna (Belarus, September 19, 1996) - for a significant contribution to strengthening friendly relations between the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation;
- State Prize of Peace and Progress of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2003);
- Anniversary medal "Tynga 50 zhyl" ("50 years of virgin lands") (Kazakhstan);
- Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, V degree (Ukraine, January 23, 2004) - for a significant personal contribution to the development of cooperation between - Ukraine and the Russian Federation;
- Order of Friendship of Peoples (Belarus, February 16, 2005) - for a great personal contribution to strengthening economic, scientific, technical and cultural ties between the Republic of Belarus and the city of Moscow of the Russian Federation;
- Order of Francysk Skaryna (Belarus);
- Medal "Astana" (Kazakhstan);
- Order "Danaker" (Kyrgyzstan, February 27, 2006) - for a significant contribution to the strengthening of friendship and cooperation, the development of trade and economic relations between the Kyrgyz Republic and the Russian Federation;
- Order of the Polar Star (Mongolia);
- Order of the Lebanese Cedar;
- Bavarian Order of Merit (Germany);
- Order of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duke Vladimir I degree (November 1993) - for participation in the restoration of the Cathedral of the Icon of Our Lady of Kazan on Red Square;
- Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh, I degree (ROC);
- Order of the Holy Right-believing Prince Daniel of Moscow, 1st class (ROC);
- Order of the Holy Right-Believing Grand Duke Dimitry Donskoy, 1st class (ROC);
- Order of St. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, I degree (ROC, 2009);
- Order of St. Andrei Rublev, I degree (ROC, 2009);
- Order of St. Seraphim of Sarov, I degree (September 22, 2016) - in connection with the 80th anniversary of his birth and in consideration of his great contribution to the construction of churches in the city of Moscow;
- Order of St. Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow II degree (ROC);
- Order of St. Sava, I degree (Serbian Orthodox Church);
- Order "Al-Fakhr" (Order of Honor) (Council of Muftis of Russia);
- Anatoly Koni Medal (Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation);
- Gold Medal of the Ministry Agriculture Russia "For contribution to the development of the agro-industrial complex of Russia";
- Medal "Participant in emergency humanitarian operations" (EMERCOM of Russia);
- Olympic Order (IOC, 1998);
- Medal "100 years of trade unions" (FNPR);
- International Leonardo Prize 1996;
- Winner of the national business reputation award "Darin" of the Russian Academy of Business and Entrepreneurship (2001);
- Theatrical award "Golden Mask" (Award "For the support of theatrical art of Russia", 1998);
- Badge of Honor (Order) "Sports Glory of Russia" I degree (the editorial office of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" and the collegium of the Russian Olympic Committee, November 2002) - for organizing the mass construction of sports facilities in Moscow;
- Laureate of the national award "Russian of the Year" (2006);
- Medal "For the Liberation of Crimea and Sevastopol" (March 17, 2014) - for personal contribution to the return of Crimea to Russia;
- Second place in the Privacy International nomination "Outrageously idiotic security measures" - for the preservation of the Soviet institute of registration in the capital (2003);
- Three thanks from the President of Russia;
- Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR;
- Laureate of the State Prize of Russia;
- Laureate of the State Prize of Peace and Progress of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
- Laureate of the Prize of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia;
- "Honored Chemist of the Russian Federation";
- "Honored Builder of the Russian Federation";
- "Honored Worker of Railway Transport";
- Honorary citizen of Veliky Ustyug (1999);
- Honorary Citizen of Yerevan (2002);
- Honorary citizen of Tiraspol;
- Honorary citizen of Chisinau;
- Honorary citizen of Dushanbe;
- Honorary citizen of Ashgabat;
- Honorary citizen of Severodonetsk
Biography
Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov was born on September 21, 1936 in Moscow into a carpenter's family. In 1958, Luzhkov graduated from the Gubkin Moscow Institute of Oil, Gas and Chemical Industry. During his studies, he worked as a janitor, as part of a student squad went to the virgin lands. In his fifth year, Luzhkov married for the first time - to his classmate Marina Bashilova.
From 1958 to 1963, Luzhkov worked in distribution at the Research Institute of Plastics, in 1964 he moved to work at the USSR Ministry of Chemical Industry, where until 1974 he was the head of the department. In 1968, Luzhkov joined the CPSU and remained a member until 1991.
From 1974 to 1980, Luzhkov was director of the experimental design bureau for automation at the Ministry of Chemical Industry. In 1980, he was appointed general director of the research and production association "Neftekhimavtomatika", after which he returned to the ministry. From 1986 to 1987, Luzhkov was the head of the department for science and technology and a member of the ministerial board.
In 1975 Luzhkov was elected people's deputy Babushkinsky District Council of Moscow, and from 1977 to 1990 he was a deputy of the Moscow City Council. Luzhkov was also elected to the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of the 11th convocation (from 1987 to 1990). In 1987, he moved from the ministry to the city executive authorities, became the first deputy chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee and chairman of the Moscow City Agro-Industrial Committee. Since 1987, Luzhkov headed the city commission for cooperative and individual labor activity.
From 1990 to 1991, Luzhkov was chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee. In June 1991, Gavriil Popov and Luzhkov ran for mayor and vice-mayor. Luzhkov held the post of vice-mayor from 1991 to 1992. In July 1991, he became the prime minister of the city government of Moscow formed on the basis of the Moscow City Executive Committee.
In August 1991, Luzhkov was one of the organizers of the defense of the White House. On August 24, 1991, he was appointed one of the Deputy Chairman of the Committee for the Operational Management of the National Economy of the USSR, created instead of the Union Council of Ministers and subsequently disbanded during the liquidation of the USSR in December.
In June 1992, after Popov's resignation, by decree of President Boris Yeltsin, Luzhkov was appointed mayor of Moscow. Subsequently, he was elected to this post in 1996, 1999 and 2003.
Since 1993, Luzhkov has actively advocated the establishment of mandatory registration of visitors in Moscow. He launched large-scale construction in the city, including the demolition of dilapidated housing ("Khrushchev's" five-story buildings) and the construction of a new one, the construction of the Third Ring Road, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, a shopping complex on Manezhnaya Square and other facilities, the demolition of a number of hotels in the center of the capital, the construction of a business center Moscow City.
In 1998, Luzhkov created the socio-political organization "Fatherland" and announced his intention to run for president. In 1999, Fatherland merged with the All Russia bloc. The new block of the OVR headed by Yevgeny Primakov parliamentary elections 1999 took third place. Subsequently, the OVR merged with the pro-Putin Unity bloc into a new organization, United Russia.
In February 1999, by decree of Luzhkov, on the basis of the Central Fuel Company (TsTK), which was controlled by the Moscow government and was designed to provide the capital with petroleum products, the Moscow Oil Company (MNK) was established. In 2003, it was transformed into Moscow Oil and Gas Company OJSC (MNGK), in which the mayor took the post of chairman of the board of directors.
Luzhkov's independence in decision-making caused dissatisfaction in the Kremlin, and in 2005 observers began to talk about the beginning of the expulsion of the mayor's team from Moscow. Nevertheless, in June 2007, Putin submitted Luzhkov's candidacy to the Moscow City Duma for approval for a fifth term, and on June 27, the deputies confirmed Luzhkov's authority as mayor of the capital. On July 6, 2007, Luzhkov officially took office for the fifth time.
In October 2007, Luzhkov headed the regional list of candidates for deputies from United Russia in Moscow in the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the fifth convocation. After the victory of the party, he, as expected, refused the deputy mandate.
Awards
Russian awards:
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 1st class (September 21, 2006) - for outstanding contribution to the strengthening of Russian statehood and the socio-economic development of the city
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (November 14, 1995) - for services to the state, a great personal contribution to the implementation of reforms aimed at restructuring the city's economy, the successful completion of work on the reconstruction of the historical center of the capital, the revival of churches, the construction of the Victory Memorial Complex on Poklonnaya Hill
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 3rd class
- Order "For Military Merit" (October 1, 2003) - for his great personal contribution to increasing the combat readiness of troops and ensuring the defense capability of the Russian Federation
- Order of Honor (August 19, 2000) - for his great contribution to the preservation and restoration of cultural and architectural monuments of the city of Moscow
- Medal "Defender of Free Russia" (November 9, 1993) - for the performance of civic duty in the defense of democracy and the constitutional order August 19-21, 1991
- Medal "In memory of the 850th anniversary of Moscow"
- Medal "In memory of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg"
Soviet awards:
- The order of Lenin
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor
- Medal "For Strengthening the Combat Commonwealth"
Russian regions awards:
- Order named after Akhmat Kadyrov (2006, Chechen Republic)
- Medal "For Merit to the Chechen Republic" (2005)
- Order of the Republic (2001, Tuva) - for many years of fruitful cooperation and great personal contribution to the socio-economic development of the republic
- Medal "60 years of the formation of the Kaliningrad region" (2006)
Foreign awards:
- Order of Saint Mesrop Mashtots (Armenia)
- Order of Friendship of Peoples (Belarus, February 16, 2005) - for a great personal contribution to strengthening economic, scientific, technical and cultural ties between the Republic of Belarus and the city of Moscow of the Russian Federation
- Order of Francysk Skaryna (Belarus)
- Medal of Francysk Skorina (Belarus, September 19, 1996) - for a significant contribution to strengthening friendly relations between the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation
- Anniversary medal "Tynga 50 zhyl" ("50 years of virgin lands") (Kazakhstan)
- Medal "Astana" (Kazakhstan)
- Order "Danaker" (Kyrgyzstan, February 27, 2006) - for a significant contribution to the strengthening of friendship and cooperation, the development of trade and economic relations between the Kyrgyz Republic and the Russian Federation
- Order of Yaroslav the Wise, V degree (Ukraine, January 23, 2004) - for a significant personal contribution to the development of cooperation between Ukraine and the Russian Federation
- Order of the Polar Star (Mongolia)
- Order of the Lebanese Cedar
- Bavarian Order of Merit (Germany)
Awards of religious organizations:
- Order of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duke Vladimir I degree (November 1993) - for participation in the restoration of the Cathedral of the Icon of Our Lady of Kazan on Red Square
- Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh, 1st class (ROC)
- Order of the Holy Right-Believing Prince Daniel of Moscow, 1st Class (ROC)
- Order of the Holy Right-Believing Grand Duke Demetrius of the Don, I degree (ROC)
- Order of St. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1st class (ROC, 2009)
- Order of St. Andrei Rublev, 1st class (ROC, 2009)
- Order of St. Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow II degree (ROC)
- Order of St. Sava, 1st class (Serbian Orthodox Church)
- Order "Al-Fakhr" (Order of Honor) (Council of Muftis of Russia)
Departmental awards:
- Anatoly Koni Medal (Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation)
- Gold medal of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia "For contribution to the development of the agro-industrial complex of Russia"
- Medal "Participant in emergency humanitarian operations" (EMERCOM of Russia)
- Olympic Order (IOC, 1998)
- Medal "100 Years of Trade Unions" (FNPR)
Public awards:
- International Leonardo Prize 1996
- Badge of Honor (Order) "Sports Glory of Russia" I degree (the editorial office of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" and the collegium of the Russian Olympic Committee, November 2002) - for organizing the mass construction of sports facilities in Moscow
Prizes and honorary titles
- Three thanks from the President of Russia
- Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR
- Laureate of the State Prize of Russia
- Laureate of the State Prize of Peace and Progress of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
- Laureate of the Prize of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia
- "Honored Chemist of the Russian Federation"
- "Honored Builder of the Russian Federation"
- "Honored Worker of Railway Transport"
- Honorary Citizen of Yerevan (2002)
- Honorary citizen of Tiraspol
- Honorary Citizen of Chisinau
- Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov owns the rights to use many inventions. He has over a hundred patents to his credit.
1. A device for extracting a gel-like concentrate in the processing of hydrocarbon oils
2. Salt water desalination plant and method of salt water desalination using the plant
3. Water ozonation plant and water ozonation method
4. Means and method for protecting non-metallic materials from biodegradation
5. Method of photodisinfection of water
6. Method for producing aluminum chloride
7. Method for producing filter material and filter fibrous material
8. Method for producing 5-aminolevulinic (5-amino-4-oxopentanoic) acid hydrochloride
9. Method for the analysis of multicomponent gas mixtures
10. Sorption gamma-resonance detector
11. Multifunctional polynomial gas filter
12. Quaternized phthalocyanines and a method for photodisinfection of water
13. Catalyst for purification of air from carbon monoxide
14. Plant for cultivating baker's yeast
15. Method for the production of whipped
16. Method for the production of a drink from curd whey "Alena"
17. Method for the production of fruit drink
18. Method for the production of honey drink
19. Method for the production of kvass or fermented drinks from grain raw materials
20. Method for obtaining a food biologically active product of yeast processing
21. Consortium of microorganisms propionibacterium shermanii, streptococcus thermophilus, acetobacter aceti used for the preparation of fermented milk products, and a method for the production of a fermented milk product
- On December 24, 2007, at the New Year's party of Rossiyskaya Gazeta, an auction took place, during which Yury Luzhkov's silver cap was sold for one million dollars. The cap was purchased by the first deputy CEO company "DSK-1" Andrey Pankovsky.
- On May 12, 2008, Yuriy Luzhkov was declared "persona non grata" on the territory of Ukraine for anti-Ukrainian statements.
- In June 2008, the issue of declaring him "persona non grata" on the territory of Georgia for anti-Georgian statements was considered.
- In May 2009, the Security Service of Ukraine declared Luzhkov "persona non grata" because of his statements at the 225th anniversary of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, which were regarded by the Ukrainian authorities as provocative.
- Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov lives in the Moscow Region (in the Molodenovo residence on Rublyovo-Uspenskoye Highway, 20 km from the Moscow Ring Road).
- In 2006, Luzhkov demanded that artists indicate information about the performance of songs under the soundtrack.
- Since 2003, Luzhkov, together with his wife Elena Baturina, regularly visit the golf club UPDC of the Russian Foreign Ministry in Nakhabino near Moscow
In recent days, he has been continuously in Austria, where his wife has real estate and serious business interests.
Gottfried-Kumpf-Gasse 18 in Breitenbrunn south of Vienna is the permanent address at which she was registered in Austria for a long time. However, she recently moved out of here, although, as it turns out, she never came here. According to the reporters of "Di Presse", the house was rented not for habitation.
Firstly, it is a faceless building with an area of 150 square meters. m, secondly, the vice-president of Inteko Oleg Soloshansky and another Russian are registered at the same address, and thirdly, no one has ever seen either Baturina or Luzhkov in Breitenbrunn.
The inhabitants of Breitenbrunn are perplexed. "Why did they need this house? It has stood empty all these months!" says neighbor Andreas Siegl.
The mayor of the city, Josef Trellinger, is upset: "It's a pity that we never came here. I would have awarded Frau Baturina the title of honorary Breitenbrunn."
The choice of a house in Breitenbrunn is all the more incomprehensible, since the Luzhkovs have a luxurious villa in Aurach for 20 million euros, where their neighbors are the Swarovski family, the owners of the Herti retail chain and bohemians.
“Everyone knows that Luzhkov and Baturina live here. But no one here asked about them before. Everyone was interested: where does Hansi Hinterseer live here?” says the gas station operator
Now journalists are here. "We have no peace here now, only because someone has a lot of money," the Luzhkovs' neighbor complains.
"Absolutely normal people, without pretentious manners," other residents of Aurach say about them.
They say that the wife of the ex-mayor likes to go shopping - no one here will recognize her.
"Mrs. Baturina appeared here four years ago and has been coming here ever since. She is always accompanied by an interpreter and security, and once Yury Luzhkov came with her. Elena is always calm, friendly," recalls Erika Janisch, an employee of the Kitzbühel Shportalm boutique.
According to the burgomaster of Kitzbühel Klaus Winkler, unlike other rich people who settled in these places, Luzhkov and Baturina were the only ones who did something for the region. The company "Inteko" sponsors the triathlon world cup, the congresses of the Rotary club for the third year, twice supported the music festival "Jazznova". They brought Carlos Santana here in 2008 and Stevie Wonder in 2009 - it was a sensation.
Not far from the former villa, Inteko built the Grand Tyrolia Hotel with an 18-hole golf course. The annual membership fee for their golf club is 16,000 euros.
True, Frau Baturina believes that she was deceived by her former financial adviser: “For two years she gave 1 million 200 thousand euros for sponsorship purposes. And then it turned out that her adviser took a commission of 15%,” says her lawyer Emilio Stock.
However, the chalets in the city, where the Luzhkovs are treated so warmly, are no longer to their liking. Too close to the road. "People are practically looking in the windows. They don't like it," Shtok says. Looks like you need to find a new home.
In addition, there are rumors that the Luzhkov couple purchased a villa in the Vienna district of Döbling. It was in Vienna that Baturina's real estate company "Safo GmbH" was registered. It contains a significant part of Inteko's capital in Austria, which allows you to save on taxes by investing within the country.
The wife of the ex-mayor Elena Baturina gave her husband surprises
80 years is a reason to break away to the fullest. It was with such a mood that the ex-mayor of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov, celebrated his anniversary. The celebration program stretched for almost a week and included a tennis match, in which Rafael Nadal's coach played together with the hero of the day, a meeting with classmates, a dinner for relatives and friends at the former Moscow Hotel, and the presentation of state awards in the Kremlin. The final chord was a community work day in Kolomenskoye, where Luzhkov planted apple trees, sang ditties and received an offer from Buranovskiye Babushki to become their grandfather.
Yury Luzhkov has been observing the tradition of meeting classmates for many years, not changing it even in the most difficult moments of his life. This year, he invited friends of his youth to a tennis match, which took place on the occasion of his birthday.
They all came with sticks, and I run around the court, - the hero of the day boasts. According to Luzhkov, he tries to go to the tennis court every day. And in the festive tournament in the "teapot + professional" format, he won twice: first, in a pair with Russian tennis player Andrei Olkhovsky, and then with the coach of the first racket of the world, Rafael Nadal. And it was the first gift for the 80th anniversary.
It is useless to ask about the rest of Luzhkov. "A lot," he replies nonchalantly, "just a huge amount." The most valuable ones are from the wife who donated the tractor, and relatives who donated to KAMAZ with a trailer. The most unexpected one came from Patriarch Kirill, who defiantly stopped communicating with Luzhkov after his resounding resignation. This time His Holiness personally came to former hotel"Moscow", where an official reception was held in honor of the hero of the day and awarded him the Order of St. Seraphim of Sarov.
There, Luzhkov was also congratulated by former members of the Moscow government, federal and regional officials, as well as cultural figures with whom he has long supported friendly relations- Galina Volchek, Ilya Reznik, Elina Bystritskaya, Alexander Shirvindt...
The wife of Yuri Luzhkov came up with the idea of how to invite not only officials and artists, but also ordinary Muscovites to her husband's birthday. “I didn’t want to celebrate anything. 80 years, as they say, from the fair, not to the fair. And then she took matters into her own hands,” says Luzhkov.
Secretly from the hero of the day, Baturin agreed to meet with Vladimir Putin (and without his consent, no public events with the participation of the disgraced mayor would have been possible in principle) and told him about the idea of holding a citywide subbotnik in Moscow. Autumn is the time to plant trees. And Kolomenskoye, chosen for laying an apple orchard, is a symbolic place for Luzhkov himself. Here he recreated the Russian wonder of the world - the wooden palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. He also held the first honey fairs in Moscow. In addition, the director of Kolomenskoye is still former minister culture of the Moscow government Sergei Khudyakov. "The president," says Luzhkov, "understood what kind of birthday the former mayor needed, and everything began to spin." They decided to restore the orchards that were in Kolomenskoye under Ivan the Terrible.
The organizers gave branded caps and work aprons to all those who came to the subbotnik. Saplings (and these were 5-year-old apple trees and pears), as well as buckets and shovels, were already standing at pre-prepared pits. Leonid Yarmolnik ran between them with a microphone in his hands. "I'm not an artist or a presenter. Today I'm a foreman," he proudly informed those who wanted to take an autograph.
At the gates of "Kolomenskoye" Luzhkov was met by old comrades-in-arms. "It's as if they've come back to the Saturday detour," they joked among themselves. The former deputy mayor for property and land issues, and now the head of the sailing federation, Vladimir Silkin, told MK that he specially flew in from the Far East for the sake of the boss's anniversary. And ex-Minister for Foreign Economic Relations Georgy Muradov left Crimea for the weekend, where he works for Sergei Aksenov. "Work in Luzhkov's team was best job in a career. Chiefs like him are one in a million,” they admitted.
A little further away stood a "man-mountain" - the former guard of the mayor Vladimir Shukshin. Yury Roslyak, vice-mayor for economic affairs, fussed around the tree with a watering can. Former developers who helped the ex-mayor raise Moscow also came to the anniversary. Now their companies, once building millions square meters housing and kilometers of roads are ruined or are at the stage of bankruptcy. And only the ex-head of the capital's construction complex, Vladimir Resin, was not among those present. He still remains for Yury Luzhkov persona non grata.
Ordinary Muscovites (fortunately, Kolomenskoye is surrounded by large residential areas) came to the subbotnik with their families. “There you see an uncle in a cap,” Luzhkov was shown to a baby born after his resignation, “he built your kindergarten.” Predictably, there were many pensioners at the holiday, for whom the organizers set up special tents with the inscription "For the peers of the hero of the day." They were treated to tea with honey and bagels.
The younger son of the ex-mayor, Alexander, brought Luzhkov's grandson to the subbotnik, who looked like his grandfather like two peas in a pod. Wife - Elena Baturina, meanwhile, danced "Russian" next to the newly dug seedlings.
Yuri Luzhkov's son Alexander (in a cap) and ex-mayor's grandson Yura (left)
“My wife has prepared homemade marshmallows for tea. Please take it, otherwise you won’t break through to the hero of the day,” the gray-haired man asked the richest woman in the country, waiting for the accordion to subside. Baturina carefully put the package in her pocket.
Luzhkov, putting down his shovel, did not get bored either. Escaped with difficulty from the ring of Muscovites who surrounded him tightly, he went up to the impromptu stage to sing with "Buranovskiye babushki". “We are always asked: grandmothers, where is your grandfather?” the “old women” laughed, “Please be our grandfather - record a song with us!”.
Elena Baturina started dancing
"Grandmothers" were replaced by Ilya Reznik, then the Doctor Watson group appeared on the stage, followed by circus performers who were sent to Kolomenskoye by Maxim Nikulin (Luzhkov was also very friendly with his father, the famous Yuri Nikulin, and even broke his leg, speaking at his request in reprise).
The open-air celebration lasted for about four hours. "I love you, my happy share, And my life lasts and I look ahead!" - the hero of the day read his poems to Muscovites. Luzhkov thanked the townspeople for their participation in the subbotnik and invited them to a new holiday. "In five years, we will plant the last fifth garden of Ivan the Terrible here," he promised.